Silver City Independent
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The paper's Wednesday, March 11, 2015 front page
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Tabloid |
| Owner(s) | The Silver City Independent Publishing Company, LLC |
| Publisher | Nickolas C. Seibel |
| Editor-in-chief | Christine Steele |
| Managing editors | Dean Thompson |
| Staff writers | 6 |
| Founded | 1896 (as The Silver City Independent) |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | 300 W. Market St. Silver City, New Mexico, United States |
| Circulation | 6,000 Daily |
| ISSN | 0891-7981 |
| OCLC number | 26786025 |
| Website | www |
The Silver City Daily Press and Independent is a six-day daily newspaper that serves the Silver City, New Mexico area of the United States. Founded in 1896 as the weekly Silver City Independent, the paper was purchased by the Ely family in 1934. In 1935, Colonel Clyde Ely renamed the paper the Silver City Daily Press and Independent and converted it into a daily newspaper. In 2007, the newspaper received the Mark Twain Award from the New Mexico Associated Press Managing Editors for their outstanding member cooperation in 2006. Since the 2008 recession, the newspaper has outsourced its printing, increased its online presence, discontinued its membership in the Associated Press and joined an 11-member New Mexico newspaper exchange. The name, archives and website of the Daily Press were purchased by the Silver City Independent Publishing Company, LLC, in April, 2014, marking its first non-Ely family ownership since its conversion to a daily newspaper.
The Silver City Daily Press traces its origins to the 1896 establishment of the Silver City Independent, a weekly newspaper originally published on Tuesdays in Silver City, New Mexico. The Independent was founded and edited by George Norton, a pioneer merchant in the area, and published its first issue on June 30, 1896, as a "non-partisan, independent, progressive local newspaper." However, despite the name, even at its beginning the newspaper wasn't nonpartisan, at least not in the modern sense of the word. In a position statement published in the first issue of the Independent, Norton spelled out what the name of the newspaper was intended to signify: "Now where this paper will differ from the average democratic paper will be in this particular — while we are willing to laud its virtues, we shall hold it as our right and duty to criticize its follies. This will be regarded as bad party politics by dyed-in-the-wool democrats, and for this reason we have christened this paper the INDEPENDENT in order that our expressions may not be construed to be those of a strict party organ." The original incarnation of the Silver City Independent was, perhaps unsurprisingly given its location, dedicated to the cause of Free silver, and carried the slogan "Free and Unlimited Coinage 16 to 1." on its Page 2 masthead throughout its first two years of publication. Norton announced that "owing to continued ill health and pecuniary interests elsewhere," he had "disposed of The Independent, together with the good will and subscription list, to the Independent Publishing Co." in a Page 2 farewell letter published on February 15, 1898.
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